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First post, by reble

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I made the following bat bellow to run SC2KCHT2.EXE via DosBox. The program is a hex editor for SimCity 2k dos version. The bat file works fine except for the last cmd. Right now I have to enter the last cmd manually .

c:\dosbox\dosbox.exe -c "cycles auto" -c "mount c c:\games" -c "c:" -c "cd maxis" -c "cd sc2k-dos" -c "cd save-cit" -c "sc2kcht2.exe"

The bat opens the following DosBox window that is in the screen capture bellow

The last cmd that has to be entered Manually . Is the "sc2kcht2 _______.sc2. The saved city file name goes in the blank spot.
My question is. Is there a cmd that I can add to the bat file that would do something like "sc2kcht2 then ask for the city file name to be entered" so that I don't have to enter the whole last cmd manually?

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Steve
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Reply 1 of 6, by reble

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Does anyone know the answer? I Believe it is a simple bat cmd but I lost the file with all of the bat cmd's in it the last time the D: HD crashed.

Steve
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Reply 2 of 6, by Dominus

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Instead of "sc2kcht2.exe" use "sc2kcht2.exe _____.sc2"

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Reply 3 of 6, by zirkoni

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set /P file=Enter city filename:
c:\dosbox\dosbox.exe -c "cycles auto" -c "mount c c:\games" -c "c:" -c "cd maxis" -c "cd sc2k-dos" -c "cd save-cit" -c "sc2kcht2.exe %file%"

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Reply 6 of 6, by reble

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The 1st try, the string (-c "sc2kcht2.exe%file%" ) didn't work. I got an error message. I changed the string to (-c "sc2kcht2.exe %file%" ). 1. a space between the exe and the %. 2. I left out the .sc2 when I typed in the file name. The 2nd try, it worked. 😀 Again many thanks

Steve
From the desk of the Amateur Radio Station of KC7BYP.

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